Dr. Yolande Harris is a composer, sound and video artist focusing on the transformative potential of sound and listening in times of environmental change. She creates shimmering installations and vibrant sound walks of underwater worlds. Working for over a decade with scientists at the forefront of bio-acoustic research into marine mammals, her projects explore respect and advocacy for the environment and other species, approached through a sonic sensibility. As our listening becomes increasingly amplified by technologies, sonic methodologies foreground different ways of knowing. Yolande exhibits her projects worldwide in venues ranging from intimate concerts and walks to international museums including Issue Project Room (New York), Netherlands Media Art Institute (Amsterdam), Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt), the House of World Cultures (Berlin) and UCLA/Getty PST Art. Yolande is Lecturer in Art and Creative Technology at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. She was Assistant Teaching Professor in Music at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) serving as Inaugural Principal Faculty of the new Creative Technologies degree, was Assistant Professor in Film/Animation/Video at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and has held major research fellowships throughout Europe and the US. She studied composition with pioneers of experimental music and sound art, Lou Harrison, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, David Dunn, Peter Sculthorpe, Louis Andriessen and Michel Waiswisz. Yolande studied music at Edinburgh University and Dartington College of Arts, has an MPhil in architecture and moving image from Cambridge University, and a PhD from Leiden University titled ‘Sound, Environment and Sonic Consciousness’.
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